RE: FrameMaker on Linux

[dgaskill@xxxxxx]

Hiya Hedley,

I've been wondering the same thing, but you know how business goes.  Before
investing the time and money into porting a product to an OS, you have to
make a good business case for it and prove to the exec staff and the bean
counters that it's financially worthwhile doing.  In this case, they'd have
to show that there would be enough people actually wanting Frame on Linux
before making that decision.   We're doing that exact thing for one of our
products now too. Ye olde market research, eh?

Regards,

Dick

> ----------
> From: 	Hedley Finger (EPA)[SMTP:Hedley.Finger@ericsson.com.au]
> 
> Folks:
> 
> When is Adobe going to release FrameMaker on Linux?  It shouldn't be too
> hard as they already know how to do it on HP-UX, Solaris, OpenWindows
> (SunOS), Irix, Ultrix, and AIX.  The Linux market for office applications
> is
> a yawning chasm waiting to be satisfied -- what a perfect chance to raise
> the profile of FrameMaker with millions of users and make some headway
> against Word.
> 
> Here's a chance to launch FrameMaker into almost virgin territory  --
> 'almost virgin' because it is already occupied by the laughable Island
> Graphics Office bugware and the competent if technogritty Applixware.
> 
> [FrameMaker 5.5.3, Windows 98, HP OmniBook 2100]
> 
> Regards,
> Hedley Finger
> Technical Writer
> 


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